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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lrudolph@black.clarku.edu (Lee Rudolph)
Subject: Mixed Races (was, Re: Penis Length)
Date: 18 Jan 94 16:56:12 GMT

marzuola@owlnet.rice.edu (Steven Joseph Marzuola) writes:

>She's part
>Chinese, part black.

For your use on those cold (or as the case may be, hot) winter days when you're sitting around the fire and wishing you had another book to throw on, here's a chart I copied from "The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge, with numerous appendixes invaluable for reference in all departments of industrial life. The whole brought down to the year 1884 with the Pronunciation and Orthography Conformed to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Illustrated with More than Five Thousand Engravings, and Fifty-two Handsomely Colored Double-Page Maps.", by W.H. De Puy, A.M., D.D., For seventeen years Associate Editor of "The Christian Advocate" at New York; Author of "Compendium of Popular Information," etc.; it's from the article on Mixed Races, and was originally "given by Dr. Tschudi, printed in the appendix to Professor Wilson's valuable work" _Prehistoric_Man_ (1881).

Father Mother Half-Caste

White           Negro           Mulatto
White           Indian          Mestizo
Indian          Negro           Chino
White           Mulatta         Cuarteron
White           Mestiza         Creole, only distinguished from the 
                                white by a pale brown complexion.
White           Chinese         Chino-blanco
White           Cuarterona      Quintero
White           Quintera        White
Negro           N.A. Indian     Zambo or Cariboco
Negro           S.A. Indian     Mameluco
Negro           Mulatta         Zambo-negro or Cubra
Negro           Mestiza         Mulatto-oscuro
Negro           Chinese         Zambo-chino
Negro           Zamba           Zambo-negro (perfectly black.)
Negro           Cuarterona      Mulatto (rather dark.)
Negro           Quinterona      Pardoc
Indian          Mulatta         Chino-oscuro
Indian          Mestiza         Mestizo-claro (frequently very
                                beautiful.)
Indian          China           Chino-cholo
Indian          Zamba           Zambo-claro
Indian          China-cholo     Indian (with short frizzy hair.)
Indian          Cuarterona      Mestizo (rather brown.)
Indian          Quintera        Mestizo
Mulatto         Zamba           Zambo
Mulatto         Mestiza         Chino (of rather clear complexion.)
Mulatto         China           Chino (rather dark.)

Zambo, by the way, is (according to some dictionary I was cruising) the source of the derogation "Sambo".

Lee "pinko-grey" Rudolph